FedEx Logistics joins FedEx Office and FedEx Freight as entities of Memphis-based FedEx Corp. that have implemented temporary, unpaid furloughs because of business conditions arising from COVID-19.

The company's 937 employees in Memphis have worked from home during the pandemic, but a number reconvened Thursday to donate food and money for the Mid-South Food Bank.

Supply of the experimental drug is so limited, physicians must apply to a committee at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for approval to treat patients who meet specific criteria.

Graceland Holdings managing partner Joel Weinshanker said the tourist attraction has permanently laid off less than 20 people whose jobs couldn't be justified during lean times for tourism.

The battery-operated suction device is designed to replace the bulb or accordion-style pumps that have been the standard for 50 years.

Tennessee's unemployment rate in April was the highest on record, eclipsing a low-water mark that had stood since 1983.

Memphis International Airport passenger traffic fell 95% in April and appeared to start rebounding in May, while cargo activity strengthened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Judges noted The Daily Memphian "had the best user interface in the category and the most balanced design with graphics and text" in awarding first place for best website.

The venue also has become "home" to 901Wrestling, which hopes to resume live matches around mid-June when the Rec Room plans to reopen.

Tennessee reported 6,081 new jobless claims from the Memphis area, raising nine-week total to 86,080 in southwest Tennessee and likely pushing it to more than 103,000 in the metro area.

Training researchers in the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital style at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is one way the hospital is transplanting itself. 

Two manufacturers and an apartment builder received tax incentives from the EDGE Board.

The historic, renovated building housing the sophisticated designer-clothes and lifestyle store has been sold to real estate investors who plan to find another business tenant.

Memphis River Parks Partnership and its design team, led by Studio Gang and Scape, announced a new, improved concept for a $60 million overhaul of Tom Lee Park. 

Nordstrom Rack among the local businesses ready to reopen doors this week.

Kelsey Mankel, PhD student in Communication Sciences & Disorders (Neuroscience concentration) at the University of Memphis, was recently awarded an NIH F31 NRSA fellowship from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for her project “Neural bases of successful auditory learning.”

Memphis in May will remain at Tom Lee Park in 2021, MIM organizers announced Tuesday, May 19.

A California-inspired wine bar and restaurant plans to open this summer in Williamsburg Village shopping center in East Memphis.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said a settlement with FedEx Ground, announced Tuesday, stemmed from a nationwide investigation of bias complaints by deaf and hard-of-hearing package handlers.

A development team is building a three-story apartment building that will place residents in the middle of the restaurants, groceries and entertainment that surround Brookhaven Circle in East Memphis. 

The new concept for the park's $60 million transformation will be revealed live today at 3:30 p.m. on The Daily Memphian's site. 

Raymond James wants to go another legal round against its Downtown Memphis landlord. The company also reveals that six years ago it negotiated to be anchor tenant for what is likely the planned One Beale office tower. 

The hospital will open when numbers of COVID-19 patients make it necessary; they will arrive by ambulance in a drive-up bay off Beale Street.

FedEx and Microsoft have formed a strategic alliance that company leaders believe will "revolutionize" commerce by giving businesses more visibility into and control of inventories and supply chains.

FedEx's emissions intensity, or volume of greenhouse gas emissions in relation to company revenues, is down 40% since 2009, but an aircraft emissions goal is proving elusive.